U.S. Majors Tour Mid-States Conference 2019 Point Champions

TOPEKA, Kan. (Sept. 19, 2019) – The SCCA® U.S. Majors Tour® Mid-States Conference has brought its 2019 calendar to a close. Nearly 275 racers took part in the Conference’s 14-round season that visited five different venues. Drivers who triumphed have earned a 2019 Mid-States Conference championship.

One driver doubled up on class championships within the Mid-States Conference this year. Michael Pettiford took the top spot in Touring 1 by racking up eight wins in his Chevrolet Corvette GS and amassing 70 more points than runner-up David Muramoto in a Nissan 350Z. In a tighter battle, Pettiford also claimed the Touring 2 championship, this time in a Pontiac Solstice GXP, by 13 points over the BMW M3 of James Leithauser.

In B-Spec, Frank Schwartz and his MINI Cooper emerged with the Mid-States championship by only 10 points over a duo of Mazda 2 drivers who managed to tie for the runner-up spot, those racers being Riley Salyer and John Phillips. Only eight points behind Salyer and Phillips was James Rogerson’s Honda Fit. For Schwartz, this is his second B-Spec title on the year as he earlier claimed the U.S. Majors Tour Western Conference championship in the class.

The Mid-States Conference produced a couple other close finishes at season’s end. In GT-2, the three Conference wins claimed by Boyd Lear and his Chevrolet Monte Carlo where not quite enough as Mike McGinley and his four Conference wins in a Chevrolet Corvette won out by a scant four points. Then in Formula Enterprises 2 it was Liam Snyder who claimed the championship by only eight points over Robert Vanman, both driving SCCA FE2 Mazdas. And eight points was also the winning margin in Formula F as Max Kaeser, with three Conference wins in a Euro Swift SE-1, just edged out Bill Kephart’s Vestal Crane 02 15AB for the title. Only two points behind Kephart in third was the Van Diemen RF99 Honda of Jay Messenger.

The U.S. Majors Tour is one pathway to the 2019 SCCA National Championship Runoffs® being held Oct. 8-13 at VIRginia International Raceway along the border of North Carolina and Virginia. U.S. Majors Tour drivers qualify for the Runoffs by participating in three U.S. Majors Tour weekends and starting at least three U.S. Majors Tour races in the same car class over the course of the season.

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